Tourism - the Facts

BOOK YOUR PLACE IN THE SUN!
On current trends tourism will be the largest industry in the world by the end of the decade. Its growth has been spectacular but under-scrutinized. Tourism in developing countries, so heavily touted as a benefit by the tourist industry, cuts both ways. Here are some basic facts about who travels in the global village and where the money goes: the true price of tourism, and who pays.

1 World Tourism Organization
2 World Development Report, World Bank, 1992
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